Police found themselves in a late-night shootout with the suspects - one was killed, the other was found wounded almost a day later.

On Wednesday, Watertown's police chief was on Capitol Hill testifying at a House hearing on the aftermath of last April's bombings.

Edward Deveau was asked about what lessons his department learned in the wake of the attack and if anything should be different.

He said while his department is too small for a permanent seat on the Boston area's Joint Terrorism Taskforce -- one of many task forces around the country organized by the FBI -- smaller agencies like his "need to have access to that table" immediately after events such as the Boston Marathon bombings.

A few days after the attacks that killed three and wounded hundred others, Watertown officers got into an early morning shootout with bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Deveau said his officers thought they were pursing carjacking suspects when the officers were attacked with homemade explosives and gunfire. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in the shootout and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found nearly a day later, wounded and hiding in a boat.

Deveau testified before the House Homeland Security Committee along with a sergeant from his department and former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis."When something like this happens, we need to have access to that table ... to be updated," Deveau said of working with the FBI-led terrorism task force. "We need to have a seat right away."

The committee chairman, Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said he still worried that law enforcement officials missed signs that Tamerlan Tsarnaev had become increasingly radicalized in the months and weeks leading up to the bombings.

McCaul said a report from the committee on the bombings "found that several red flags and warnings were missed."

The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday that Tamerlan Tsarnaev submitted an application with immigration authorities to legally change his name to honor a slain militant who fought Russian forces in Dagestan, a Russian republic where the Tsarnaev family is from.

The Tsarnaev brothers, ethnic Chechens, and their family immigrated to the Boston area more than a decade ago. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a legal permanent resident. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev became a naturalized citizen just months before the bombings.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has pleaded not guilty to a 30-count indictment and is scheduled to stand trial in federal court in November. The government is seeking the death penalty.

WAS ALREADY IN POLICE CUSTODY. RHONDELLA RICHARDSON, WCVB NEWSCENTER5. FOR 8 1/2 MINUTES WE WERE THE BEST DAMN POLICE DEPARTMENT IN THE WORLD. WATERTOWN STRONG. IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL TODAY, CURRENT AND FORMER LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS TESTIFYING BEFORE A COMMITTEE. PHIL LIPOF WAS THERE FOR THE HEARING AND JOINS US LIVE FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL RIGHT NOW. PHIL? ED, THE HEARING HERE ON CAPITOL HILL LASTED ABOUT TWO HOURS. THE COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY WAS LOOKING TO BOSTON AND WATERTOWN POLICE FOR LESSONS LEARNED IN HOW TO PREVENT AN ATTACK LIKE THIS IN THE FUTURE. T IS NOT OFTEN YOU HEAR SILENCE ON CAPITOL HILL. BUT ON THIS DAY ON THE COMMITTEE HEARING ON MARATHON BOMBINGS. I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE A MOMENT TO REMEMBER. THE DAY BEGAN WITH JUST THAT, A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR THE FOUR VICTIM VICTIM AND 260 INJURED. AND THEN A STANDING OH VISION OVATION FOR FIVE OF THE WATERTOWN POLICE OFFICERS. THEN IT WAS DOWN TO BUSINESS. A REVIEW OF THE OFFICIAL REPORT ON THE ATTACK. THE WATERTOWN POLICE CHIEF NOT MINCING WORDS. I'M NOT SURE IF WE ARE THE BEST POLICE DEPARTMENT IN THE STATE BUT FOR 8 1/2 MINUTES WE WERE THE BEST DAMN POLICE DEPARTMENT IN THE WORLD. THE MAN WHO WAS THE COMMISSIONER ON THAT HORRIBLE DAY ANSWERED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE COMMITTEE'S BIGGEST CONCERN, INFORMATION SHARING. LIKE THE DELAY IN RELEASING THE PHOTOS TO THE PUBLIC DURING THE HUNT. WE DID HAVE THE PHOTOGRAPHS ON WEDNESDAY AND THERE WAS A PRESS CONFERENCE SCHEDULED. BUT AT THAT POINT IN TIME THE F.B.I. HAD TAKEN JURISDICTION OF THE CASE SO THEY WERE MAKING THE DECISIONS. WHATEVER WAS GOING ON DURING THAT PERIOD, FRANKLY, THE BOSTON POLICE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN. SOMETHING CONGRESSMAN BILL KEATING NEVER WAN WANTS TO SEE HAPPEN AGAIN. HE IS HELPING DRAFT LEGISLATION TO MAKE SHARING INFORMATION BETWEEN AGENCIES A LAW. WORK TO SEE IF WE CAN CHANGE SOME OF THE CODES. THERE SEEMS TO TO BE A STRONG SENTIMENT 20 DO THAT. THE CONGRESSMAN SAYS HE KNOWS HE CAN'T MAKE PEOPLE SHARE INFORMATION BUT CONGRESS WILL DO ITS BEST TO TRY. COMING UP WE WILL INTRODUCE YOU

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